Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Americans eat 15 billion pounds of meat a year. It has made fortunes and names for four U. S. families-Armour, Swift, Wilson, Cudahy. It keeps 129,000 men at work the year around...
...Strecker fight, and of a lot of other celebrated "liberal" cases, notably those of Angelo Herndon, the Scottsboro Boys and John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations. Examiner Landis was stern with her when she opened her case with a long statement to the effect that Harry Bridges was being railroaded by the Interests...
...Roosevelt's immediate reason for expanding it is economic. Giving USHA another $800,000,000 is a big feature of the Great White Rabbit of 1939 whereby business recovery is to be accelerated in time for the 1940 election. In his speech, Mr. Straus stressed that all USHA work goes to private contractors. It is thus at the mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial push behind Housing that the Temporary National Economic...
Great was the to-do in 1933 when John Pierpont Morgan and his banking partners were discovered to have paid no income taxes for the years 1931 and 1932.* Franklin Roosevelt's legislators were put to work and the next year, restricted in their use of capital losses, Morgan & Co. paid heavily. They paid, but they appealed, and in due time the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruled in their favor. Last week the Treasury announced their refunds, as follows...
...found no trouble in keeping herself and the other four nuns busy. Anxious to help, the general bribed the suspicious natives to visit school and dispensary. His peacock of an heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...